Innovation Zone Contact Listing

Get a head-start toward both College & Career
Combine academics with real world experience, including specialized field trips and industry mentors. - NFTE Video -

RICE is an economic mobility engine for the community: driving entrepreneurs and small business owners to innovate, grow, create jobs, and build wealth. We house over 50,000 square feet of convening, meeting, and innovation space in a LEED Silver Certified building, brought to life by a robust offering of educational, networking, mentoring, and capital resources. Part business generator, innovation lab, and museum, RICE invests in Black entrepreneurs, strengthens businesses, and creates community.

Stakeholders and Requirements - https://russellcenter.org/become-a-stakeholder/

(Chicago, IL)
Teach the teacher model for robotics training. Train youth to become virtual trainers...

The community of 2362 free, open and local programming clubs for young people
58,000 young people are being creative with technology with the help of 12,000 volunteers in 117 countries. Join us!

Mike Schmit

President
WESTERN REGION ROBOTICS FORUM INC

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http://wrrf.org/about

It is my firm belief that experience based learning programs, directed at science and technology, are an effective means to fill the lagging pipeline of college graduates in the engineering, math, science and technology fields. My 12 years of involvement in FIRST has borne this out. I have seen many students who were not interested in engineering turn to this field in their college studies as a result of their experience in FIRST. I am a working software engineer in Silicon Valley, and have spent the past 12 years working with a FIRST team in San Jose. As a result of my experience with these teams, I decided help the WRRF make this type of learning experience available to more students in the San Francisco Bay Area and the state. I'm sure that by working together, we can nurture and grow experience-based learning programs that will benefit both education and industry, and the community at large. I am looking forward to working with you to further this goal.

We're working to build a dedicated nonprofit youth-oriented informal STEM learning center & makerspace at the Livermore Municipal Airport. We're building a hangar with up to 45,000 sqft of classrooms, meeting rooms, workspace, tools & equipment ready for STEM projects, technical career training, and product prototyping.

Today, changing demographics, an aging workforce, and a globally competitive market necessitate increasing the number of underrepresented groups in the STEM workforce. However, economic inequality and educational barriers prevent BIPOC girls and women from being exposed to and educated in the essential disciplines of the modern-day economy. We created the K-12 Youth Initiative program to address these pressing issues and help young BIPOC students capitalize on this opportunity.

Featuring our immersive, hands-on after-school educational program, a tour of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs), and our SparkHart Hackathon, our K-12 Youth Initiative is advancing the success of students of color in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and preparing them for the future workforce.

Impact at - https://www.girlsfortechnology.org/impact

CT-based Pitch Competition

Building For Equity is a 6-week intensive training program and pitch competition for Black and Latina business owners to acquire the needed training, mentorship, knowledge, and skills needed to gain access to capital.

Girls For Technology will select 10 women business owners to participate in this training and pitch cohort. We'll also provide one-on-one mentorship during the course of your 6-week journey through Building For Equity.

At the end of Building For Equity, each participant will pitch their business plan to an audience of investors and peers at our Building For Equity Pitch Competition!

Curriculum Resource
Goodgirls Write Code programs are offered in public and private schools nationwide, incorporated in the teacher's curriculum, as an after-school club, or summer camp throughout the school year. We bridge the gap that exists in computer science programs offered in public schools by providing Goodgirls Write Code resource toolkits. Each toolkit includes teacher and student instructional materials, as well as Goodgirls Write Code t-shirts used as rewards to encourage each student to achieve project goals and motivate them to succeed.

Sphero transforms the way kids PK–12 learn with a fun, comprehensive approach to STEAM (that's STEM + Art) and computer science. Our coding robots, design-and-build kits, curriculum, and engaging lessons and activities encourage exploration, imagination, and perseverance.

Great concept!

Led by Brent Freeman,Chair - Bay Area Advisory Board (for NFTE)

Founder & President - Stealth Venture Labs

Merit America is a national nonprofit organization that creates fast, flexible pathways to family-sustaining careers for Americans without 4-year degrees.

Zero INITIAL cost technical training.

“FIRST is more than robots. The robots are a vehicle for students to learn important life skills.

Kids often come in not knowing what to expect – of the program nor of themselves. They leave, even after the first season, with a vision, with confidence and with a sense that they can create their own future.”

– FOUNDER, DEAN KAMEN

Interested in solving problems that matter? Welcome to WSI.

NFTE's World Series of Innovation invites young people to get involved in solving some of the biggest challenges humanity faces today and advancing the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Empower the next generations of students to be the disruptors of the future
For middle school, high school, and university educators who want to deliver relevant, fun, and creative STEAM lessons that enable all students to thrive, Arduino Education’s open-source approach and cross-curriculum content are essential tools that develop and empower students as they progress through their STEAM education.
Our classroom programs include kits, bundles, and boards with project-based learning paths for individual and collaborative educational approaches. Teaching remotely? We have kits designed for remote, individual learning, making hands-on STEAM education accessible even when the classroom isn’t.

We are a global tech education nonprofit that empowers girls to become leaders, creators and problem-solvers.

Our Technovation Girls program equips young women (ages 8-18) to become tech entrepreneurs and leaders. With the support of volunteer mentors and parents, girls work in teams to code mobile apps that address real-world problems.

YouCubed

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https://www.youcubed.org

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Referred by Stephen Caines

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How Contact Discovered
Mathematics is often the reason that students leave STEM, particularly girls and some students of color. We aim to change this by communicating the sources of maths inequality in the US and by teaching the classroom methods that are needed for 21st century learning. By providing research-based teaching methods, mathematics tasks, videos, and ideas we intend to significantly reduce maths failure and inequality in the United States and beyond, inspiring teachers and empowering all students to success.

TechTogether has been acquired by Major League Hacking!

Stephen M. Samuel

President - Design Visionaries
United States Technical Education Center

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https://ustec.org
408-781-3955
Steves@DesignViz.com

Status
Met with Albert and Stephen at USTEC on 08/10/2022.

Next Steps
Email sent for meeting with Chappie - 11/21/22

Hi Stephen and Albert, I wanted to reach out on behalf of Vice Mayor Jones regarding the San Jose Community Innovation Hub (One Page Description, More Detail). Could we schedule a meeting so Vice Mayor can share his vision and enlist your support to broaden access to innovative technologies throughout San Jose? Hope you're doing great and have wonderful plans for the Thanksgiving holiday! Thanks. Michael